Paul R Dokecki
Biographic Data
| ID | 3884724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul R Dokecki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul R |
| FAMILY NAME | Dokecki |
| SIGNATURE | DOKECKI P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Construction of Politico‐religious Narratives: Steps Toward Intervention Promoting Human Development and Community
“Without an understanding of religion in American life, an understanding of community in American life remains incomplete” (Pargament & Maton, 2000, p. 515). In America, however, religion intertwines with politics, often creating ideological controversy and political deadlock. We investigated one of the underlying contributors to America's current ideological controversy, namely, values as manifest in the politico‐religious narratives people cons…
The spiritual dimensions of psychopolitical validity: The case of the clergy sexual abuse crisis
In this article, the authors explore the spiritual dimensions of psychopolitical validity and use it as a lens to analyze clergy sexual abuse. The psychopolitical approach suggests a comprehensive human science methodology that invites exploration of phenomena such as spirituality and religious experience and the use of methods from a wide variety of disciplines, including philosophy and theology. They report an analysis showing the clergy sexual…
Action research on leadership for community development in West Africa and North America: A joining of liberation theology and community psychology
Our purpose is to enhance the field's understanding of the nature of community leadership, the psychological sense of community, and the spiritual dimensions of community life. We describe an action research community development project conducted in a low‐income Catholic parish in Lagos, Nigeria, in Western Africa. After describing the community development process that resulted in the establishment of 40 small/street basic communities (SBCs), w…
Toward a community‐oriented action research framework for spirituality: Community psychological and theological perspectives
Spirituality, once an old and honorable religious term for the “exploration into what is involved in becoming human” (McFague, 1997, p. 10), is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, albeit highly diverse and ambiguous in its usage. In our active interchange involving two community psychologists and a theologian—carried on in the spirit of Lewinian action research and pastoral theology's method of congregational studies— we have returned to that ear…
The Gray-Hobbs vision
Susan Gray and Nicholas Hobbs were visionaries. The John F. Kennedy Center is the most significant and enduring testimony of their vision, emerging as it did from their continuation of the distinguished tradition of psychology at George Peabody College. Established in 1914, Peabody College's Department of Psychology awarded the first doctorate in psychology in the South. Major figures in the history of the field, such as E. K. Strong and Joseph P…
The Gray-Hobbs Vision
On knowing the community of caring persons: A methodological basis for the reflective-generative practice of community psychology
The combination of generative-reflective practice and human science provides a powerful postpositivist rationale for community research and action. As a foundation for this rationale, the paper begins with an analysis of persons-in-community and of caring as the core of community psychology intervention. This analysis is based on work of 20th-century Scottish philosopher John Macmurray. In Macmurray's view, the person and the community are hierar…
A community psychology framework for participating in mental health policy making
Psychologists are becoming more and more sensitized to the influence of mental health policy on the delivery of psychological services and, simultaneously, to the role they can or ought to play in the mental health policy-making process. Traditional and potential roles for psychologists in this process are identified and classified by means of a community psychology framework. The centrality of values in these roles is identified, and conceptual …
Public and private responsibility for mental health services
Can knowledge contribute to the creation of community
The Family and the Professions: Implications for Public Policy
If families are to be strengthened they should not only be viewed as means to societal ends (such as economic and social stability) but also their well-being should be recognized as a valied end in its own right. Interdependence should characterize optimal family-society relations. Society should be built on the values of community, mutual aid, cooperation, reduction of alienation, shared responsibility, human development, and Competent Society. …
The place of values in the world of psychology and public policy
(1983). The place of values in the world of psychology and public policy. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 108-125
The vicissitudes of program development: Commentary on tharp and gallimore
This commentary on Tharp and Gallimore's excellent analysis of the inquiry process in program development attempts to add credence to the article and place it in context. Described is an in-depth assay of the views of a panel of experts on early childhood research and development, which found (a) that the development of valid and high-quality intervention programs is difficult, time-consuming, and costly; and (b) that for valid and high-quality p…
Liberation: Movement in theology, theme in community psychology
Inventing, explaining, and conserving America: Garry Wills's relevance to community psychology
A transactional perspective on the interrelationship of the societal power structure, the mental health establishment, the individual, and the community: A commentary on Nassi
While agreeing in part with Nassi's (1978) radical position on the failure of community control to be meaningfully implemented by the mental health establishment, a complementary analysis is proposed as being more complete by virtue of integrating a variety of societal and individual perspectives. This analysis builds on transactional epistemology and a multi-level model of service delivery, also bringing to bear developmental and social evolutio…
Bureaucratic schools and families: Toward a renegotiation with policy implications
In this last quarter of the twentieth century, the nation's public schools are in a paradoxical situation. Some public figures call for schools to assume substantially more responsibility than ever before for service to the American people. On the other hand, harsh critics, in many instances, go so far as to call for dissolution of the bureaucratic public schools as we have known them. This paper presents selected aspects of both sides of the par…
School‐related factors influencing the self‐concepts of children with learning problems
Assignment of children with learning problems to self-contained, special classrooms received criticism on the ground that such assignment results in stigmatization of the child with a concomitant diminution of self-concept.1 concern for the special child's self-concept, coupled with mounting suspicion that special class assignment does not result in accelerated academic achievement, has served as impetus for the mainstreaming movement, where chil…
The liaison perspective on the enhancement of human development: Theoretical, historical, and experiential background
The politics of clinical judgment: Early empirical returns
Early childhood intervention 2001: Transactional and developmental perspectives
While speculating about the early childhood intervention odyssey on which we hope our society will be embarking in the year 2001, we were struck by the discrepancy between the bleakness of what is and the promise of what could or should be. There may be difficult and dark days ahead for interventionists. The presentation of our dreams in this paper is based on theoretical notions involving the child-family system, the intervention process, and br…
The evaluation of a home-based educational intervention for preschoolers and their mothers
In search of a transactional model for educational intervention: Reactions to Farber and Lewis
Sociologists Bernard Farber and Michael Lewis ask from a social system perspective, Why have compensatory educational programs failed?l They maintain that the assumptions underlying the basic idea of compensatory education are faulty and that the espousal of the compensatory strategy is largely determined by the presence of potent needs and interests in modern American Society.2 They call for educators to become independent field teachers and ass…
The politics of clinical judgment: Early empirical returns
Toward a community‐oriented action research framework for spirituality: Community psychological and theological perspectives
Spirituality, once an old and honorable religious term for the “exploration into what is involved in becoming human” (McFague, 1997, p. 10), is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, albeit highly diverse and ambiguous in its usage. In our active interchange involving two community psychologists and a theologian—carried on in the spirit of Lewinian action research and pastoral theology's method of congregational studies— we have returned to that ear…
The place of values in the world of psychology and public policy
(1983). The place of values in the world of psychology and public policy. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 108-125
Action research on leadership for community development in West Africa and North America: A joining of liberation theology and community psychology
Our purpose is to enhance the field's understanding of the nature of community leadership, the psychological sense of community, and the spiritual dimensions of community life. We describe an action research community development project conducted in a low‐income Catholic parish in Lagos, Nigeria, in Western Africa. After describing the community development process that resulted in the establishment of 40 small/street basic communities (SBCs), w…
In search of a transactional model for educational intervention: Reactions to Farber and Lewis
Sociologists Bernard Farber and Michael Lewis ask from a social system perspective, Why have compensatory educational programs failed?l They maintain that the assumptions underlying the basic idea of compensatory education are faulty and that the espousal of the compensatory strategy is largely determined by the presence of potent needs and interests in modern American Society.2 They call for educators to become independent field teachers and ass…
The Family and the Professions: Implications for Public Policy
If families are to be strengthened they should not only be viewed as means to societal ends (such as economic and social stability) but also their well-being should be recognized as a valied end in its own right. Interdependence should characterize optimal family-society relations. Society should be built on the values of community, mutual aid, cooperation, reduction of alienation, shared responsibility, human development, and Competent Society. …
Early childhood intervention 2001: Transactional and developmental perspectives
While speculating about the early childhood intervention odyssey on which we hope our society will be embarking in the year 2001, we were struck by the discrepancy between the bleakness of what is and the promise of what could or should be. There may be difficult and dark days ahead for interventionists. The presentation of our dreams in this paper is based on theoretical notions involving the child-family system, the intervention process, and br…
The spiritual dimensions of psychopolitical validity: The case of the clergy sexual abuse crisis
In this article, the authors explore the spiritual dimensions of psychopolitical validity and use it as a lens to analyze clergy sexual abuse. The psychopolitical approach suggests a comprehensive human science methodology that invites exploration of phenomena such as spirituality and religious experience and the use of methods from a wide variety of disciplines, including philosophy and theology. They report an analysis showing the clergy sexual…
Public and private responsibility for mental health services
In search of a transactional model for educational intervention: Reactions to Farber and Lewis
Sociologists Bernard Farber and Michael Lewis ask from a social system perspective, Why have compensatory educational programs failed?l They maintain that the assumptions underlying the basic idea of compensatory education are faulty and that the espousal of the compensatory strategy is largely determined by the presence of potent needs and interests in modern American Society.2 They call for educators to become independent field teachers and ass…
Early childhood intervention 2001: Transactional and developmental perspectives
While speculating about the early childhood intervention odyssey on which we hope our society will be embarking in the year 2001, we were struck by the discrepancy between the bleakness of what is and the promise of what could or should be. There may be difficult and dark days ahead for interventionists. The presentation of our dreams in this paper is based on theoretical notions involving the child-family system, the intervention process, and br…
The evaluation of a home-based educational intervention for preschoolers and their mothers
Bureaucratic schools and families: Toward a renegotiation with policy implications
In this last quarter of the twentieth century, the nation's public schools are in a paradoxical situation. Some public figures call for schools to assume substantially more responsibility than ever before for service to the American people. On the other hand, harsh critics, in many instances, go so far as to call for dissolution of the bureaucratic public schools as we have known them. This paper presents selected aspects of both sides of the par…
School‐related factors influencing the self‐concepts of children with learning problems
Assignment of children with learning problems to self-contained, special classrooms received criticism on the ground that such assignment results in stigmatization of the child with a concomitant diminution of self-concept.1 concern for the special child's self-concept, coupled with mounting suspicion that special class assignment does not result in accelerated academic achievement, has served as impetus for the mainstreaming movement, where chil…
The liaison perspective on the enhancement of human development: Theoretical, historical, and experiential background
The politics of clinical judgment: Early empirical returns
A transactional perspective on the interrelationship of the societal power structure, the mental health establishment, the individual, and the community: A commentary on Nassi
While agreeing in part with Nassi's (1978) radical position on the failure of community control to be meaningfully implemented by the mental health establishment, a complementary analysis is proposed as being more complete by virtue of integrating a variety of societal and individual perspectives. This analysis builds on transactional epistemology and a multi-level model of service delivery, also bringing to bear developmental and social evolutio…
Inventing, explaining, and conserving America: Garry Wills's relevance to community psychology
The vicissitudes of program development: Commentary on tharp and gallimore
This commentary on Tharp and Gallimore's excellent analysis of the inquiry process in program development attempts to add credence to the article and place it in context. Described is an in-depth assay of the views of a panel of experts on early childhood research and development, which found (a) that the development of valid and high-quality intervention programs is difficult, time-consuming, and costly; and (b) that for valid and high-quality p…
Liberation: Movement in theology, theme in community psychology
The place of values in the world of psychology and public policy
(1983). The place of values in the world of psychology and public policy. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 108-125
The Family and the Professions: Implications for Public Policy
If families are to be strengthened they should not only be viewed as means to societal ends (such as economic and social stability) but also their well-being should be recognized as a valied end in its own right. Interdependence should characterize optimal family-society relations. Society should be built on the values of community, mutual aid, cooperation, reduction of alienation, shared responsibility, human development, and Competent Society. …
Can knowledge contribute to the creation of community
A community psychology framework for participating in mental health policy making
Psychologists are becoming more and more sensitized to the influence of mental health policy on the delivery of psychological services and, simultaneously, to the role they can or ought to play in the mental health policy-making process. Traditional and potential roles for psychologists in this process are identified and classified by means of a community psychology framework. The centrality of values in these roles is identified, and conceptual …
Public and private responsibility for mental health services
On knowing the community of caring persons: A methodological basis for the reflective-generative practice of community psychology
The combination of generative-reflective practice and human science provides a powerful postpositivist rationale for community research and action. As a foundation for this rationale, the paper begins with an analysis of persons-in-community and of caring as the core of community psychology intervention. This analysis is based on work of 20th-century Scottish philosopher John Macmurray. In Macmurray's view, the person and the community are hierar…
The Gray-Hobbs vision
Susan Gray and Nicholas Hobbs were visionaries. The John F. Kennedy Center is the most significant and enduring testimony of their vision, emerging as it did from their continuation of the distinguished tradition of psychology at George Peabody College. Established in 1914, Peabody College's Department of Psychology awarded the first doctorate in psychology in the South. Major figures in the history of the field, such as E. K. Strong and Joseph P…
The Gray-Hobbs Vision
Toward a community‐oriented action research framework for spirituality: Community psychological and theological perspectives
Spirituality, once an old and honorable religious term for the “exploration into what is involved in becoming human” (McFague, 1997, p. 10), is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, albeit highly diverse and ambiguous in its usage. In our active interchange involving two community psychologists and a theologian—carried on in the spirit of Lewinian action research and pastoral theology's method of congregational studies— we have returned to that ear…
Action research on leadership for community development in West Africa and North America: A joining of liberation theology and community psychology
Our purpose is to enhance the field's understanding of the nature of community leadership, the psychological sense of community, and the spiritual dimensions of community life. We describe an action research community development project conducted in a low‐income Catholic parish in Lagos, Nigeria, in Western Africa. After describing the community development process that resulted in the establishment of 40 small/street basic communities (SBCs), w…
The spiritual dimensions of psychopolitical validity: The case of the clergy sexual abuse crisis
In this article, the authors explore the spiritual dimensions of psychopolitical validity and use it as a lens to analyze clergy sexual abuse. The psychopolitical approach suggests a comprehensive human science methodology that invites exploration of phenomena such as spirituality and religious experience and the use of methods from a wide variety of disciplines, including philosophy and theology. They report an analysis showing the clergy sexual…
The Construction of Politico‐religious Narratives: Steps Toward Intervention Promoting Human Development and Community
“Without an understanding of religion in American life, an understanding of community in American life remains incomplete” (Pargament & Maton, 2000, p. 515). In America, however, religion intertwines with politics, often creating ideological controversy and political deadlock. We investigated one of the underlying contributors to America's current ideological controversy, namely, values as manifest in the politico‐religious narratives people cons…
Psychology (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Community Health and Development (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Intervention (counseling) (4 works)